Raikkonen: One of My Easiest Ever Wins

F1 is back, with a BANG!!! For any F1 fan, if you missed yesterday's race, where the hell were you??? Nobody could've predicted the outcome of the first grand prix of 2013. Well, only me and a friend of mine did. Kimi stole the show at Australia!!! Hahaha... Here's what Kimi had to say after the race. 

Kimi Raikkonen described his win in the 2013 Formula 1 season-opening Australian Grand Prix as one of the easiest of his career.

Raikkonen came through from seventh on the grid to win in Melbourne, joining Sebastian Vettel, Felipe Massa and Fernando Alonso in a lead train after a good start, and then vaulting his rivals by two-stopping while they had to pit three times.

"Our plan was to do two stops and though it's always difficult in the first races to know when to stop and not go too early, we got it exactly right," he said.

"We followed the plan and it worked out perfectly for us. I could save the tyres and go fast if I needed.

"It was one of the easiest races I have done to win. Hopefully we can have many more of these races."

Alonso was closing in on Raikkonen in the final stages, before the Finn raised his pace, set a new fastest lap and pulled away to win by 11 seconds.

"Fernando was catching me at some points when I was taking it a bit more easy and I had some traffic, so I just wanted to make sure that if the rain came or anything I had a bit more of a gap," said Raikkonen.

"It was a pretty nice race, not so difficult."

Despite his perfect start to the season, Raikkonen underlined that Lotus could not be confident it was a title contender yet.

"It feels good but it's only one race so it doesn't really change our aim or our work," he said.

"We're happy with the win and there's a lot still to do to try to win the championship."

Hat-Trick Hero Vettel

Sebastian Vettel won his third F1 title last night in thrilling fashion in the final race of F1 calendar in Brazil. Congratulations to the German!!! Ferrari's Fernando Alonso came real close (only 3 points separate the two drivers) to stop the German but it was just not meant to be for the Spaniard. F1 2012 draws to a close and I'm already looking forward to next year's championship. Enjoy the photos folks! 

FI Comes To A Close This Sunday

An article from The Sun UK

Fernando Alonso has started the mind games with title rival Sebastian Vettel by telling the German: “I’ve got nothing to lose”. The Ferrari ace goes into Sunday’s showdown in Sao Paulo trailing the Red Bull ace by 13 points. The two-time world champion managed to deny Vettel the chance of making it a hat-trick of titles in Austin last weekend by finishing third. But while Alonso played it cool in the Texas heat, Vettel showed signs he was cracking under the strain by yelling over his team’s radio when he was overtaken by eventual race-winner Lewis Hamilton. And now Alonso, who has never won here at Interlagos, is remaining coy about his chances of lifting the F1 crown. He said: “In Formula One there’s always pressure but definitely we have less than if we were leading the championship. ”We have nothing really to lose. We are arriving in second position after five qualifying sessions dominated by Red Bull. ”Winning the title looks like a very difficult achievement but if everything goes normally, we should finish second. ”If something else happens, maybe we will win the championship but because it’s not in our hands, the pressure is much less. ”The first priority is to be on the podium, which gives us the possibility to score more than 13 points. We then we need to wait for the results from Red Bull.” ”It was thanks to Ferrari’s controversial tactics which allowed Alonso the chance to take this title fight down to the wire.

The Italian team needlessly opened up his team-mate Felipe Massa’s gearbox in Austin to trigger a five-place grid penalty. That bumped Alonso further up the grid and allowed him to sit on the clean side of the track and, on the first lap he was up to fourth, despite starting in seventh. But Alonso, 31, says if he were to beat Vettel to the title here, then he is adamant his victory would not be tainted. He added: “We’ve seen so many scenes coming from the teams, not only this year but in the past. ”But I’m proud of my team, it was a strategic decision, to start on the clean side with both cars. “Also, fighting for the constructors’ championship is one of the targets that we have. We want to beat McLaren and it worked quite well. “Because it worked quite well, maybe the people were not very happy but I’m proud more than anything because we said the truth when we changed the gearbox. ”Not many teams are able to tell the truth when they make a strategic decision.”